Radius knurling?

[Gerhard Olivier]

On the lathe im fixing is a lot of knobs with knurled heads but they are knurled on a radius not flat -so how do I

After a while of  I figured I already have the tool for it.



So I took a knob cut a small radius at the end and indented the top as the old ones would be leaving something that look like a pumpkin.



The mod of the toool looks like this.  Knurling wheel ( fine straight) on a mount with a brass pin to rotate on.


After setting the tool and some (lots) of WD40 applied some presure to the tool and after some gentle rotation it looked like this.




Gerhard

[sbwhart]

Neat Job Gerhard 

 

Stew

[Darren]

Excellent, that was a really nice bit of brain power there 

Looks terrific 

[DavesWimshurst]

Gerhard,
The ball turner strikes again, nice mod!

Dave

[websterz]

Ball Turners...is there ANYTHING they can't do?     

[dsquire]

Gerhard

Thinking outside the box again? Job well done

Cheers 

Don

[Gerhard Olivier]

Thanks for the comments.

It is a wonderfull feeling when you do a small simple mod AND it works so well.

Back to the other current projects  ITS SO CONFUSING.

Gerhard

[jim]

impresive

[CrewCab]

More thinking "Outside the box"    ..............  nice one Gerhard 

I need to make a new ball turner to suit the Boxford, looks like I'll need to get my "Design Head" on first to incorporate all these great ideas 

CC

[cedge]

 
Gerhard
It's the small nuggets of pure gold, like this one that keep me watching the forums. This one is a solution I'd been looking for for quite some time. Well done!! Now I hope you'll understand when I steal it and add it to my own arsenal of tools....LOL

Steve

[Gerhard Olivier]

Now I hope you'll understand when I steal it and add it to my own arsenal of tools....LOL

Steve

Thanks and steal all you want.  It would repay some small part of all the ideas I have stolen over time.

Gerhard.